bleistift2

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bleistift2,

Of course, they’re just greedy bastards. It’s not like there were too few doctors for too many patients.

Every minute you’re waiting your doctor is caring for someone else.

bleistift2,

The fact that you seem to not have seen this before indicates that you cannot actually always contract ‘you’ and ‘are’. ‘Cannot’ in the sense that most people don’t do it and you will get grades deducted if you do it when learning English as a second language.

bleistift2,

I retract the word ‘indicate.’ It’s not proof, but if you haven’t seen a phrase before, despite n years of reading and/or speaking a language, it means that that phrase is uncommon. If that phrase also looks like it should be used more (I’m referring to “you’re” being very common in different sentence structures), that’s a strong hint that the phrase doesn’t exist or has some very different meaning in that context.

bleistift2,

Now that I re-read it, I’m pretty sure the second one should be “actually cannot always”.

bleistift2,

I wasn’t trying to imply that contracting is always wrong. Rather, it is not always right.

In the case of “it’s what it’s”, the “it is” part is being stressed, so contracting it is weird.

This is why I find contracting “You are already“ weird. To me, the stress is on the are. However, after reading and re-reading the statement in my head, I can feel people stressing the already instead. To those, “You’re already” would probably be fine.

bleistift2,

For me it works sometimes, sometimes it doesn’t.

bleistift2,

The most infuriating thing is that they label that as a feature. Sure, I want to get woken up in the middle of the night because some MS douche decides my laptop needed updates.

bleistift2,

I find it even more annoying when they refuse to use their hearing aids. It’s not my problem if they can’t read the newspaper, but repeating every sentence because they need two attempts to understand it… aAaAAAaahh!

bleistift2,

The Hominidae, whose members are known as the great apes are a taxonomic family of primates that includes […] orangutan[s]; Gorilla[s …]; […] the chimpanzee and the bonobo; and Homo, of which only modern humans (Homo sapiens) remain.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hominidae

Apes [are] collectively [called] Hominoidea […] There are two extant branches of the superfamily Hominoidea: the gibbons […]; and the [great apes …]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ape

You’re right in that humans are apes taxonomically. What I was trying to contradict was the misconception according to which the type of apes we see today got somehow “frozen” evolutionary some time ago, but that some of their descendents evolved to become human.

bleistift2,

Even non-Christian-nutjobs get this wrong, so let me spell it out: Humans didn’t evolve from apes. Humans evolved with apes from a common ancestor.

bleistift2,

alone ≠ lonely

bleistift2,

I find it way more unnerving when the floor near (or sometimes not near) elevators stars shaking. Why does that happen? The elevator is obviously not connected to the floor‽

bleistift2,

Where’s the Mythbusters clip debunking the myth that a (first-world) elevator is even capable of falling?

bleistift2,

You know what? If it takes more than 5 minutes, go see a doctor. You’ll bleed to death in days.

bleistift2,

If it takes days for your platelets to close a wound, go see a doctor.

bleistift2,

“Hey, guess what, I got free text messages now.”

3 days later I contemplate blocking them.

bleistift2,

I am well-aware that Christianity isn’t self-consistent. This was luckily part of my religious education in school and my edition of the Bible even points out contradictions.

To be honest, the title is only there to feign a discussion, since I didn’t want to be too overtly anti-religious.

bleistift2,

RE as in Religious education. I don’t know what “UU” means.

bleistift2,

Then I’ll try another attempt at my answer. “Religious education”, as I use the term, is the class you take from primary school all the way through to your graduation in High School, if your denomination is covered by the school you attend. It’s the default for baptized children in the German state I went to school in. If your denomination is not covered (or you just don’t want R.E.), you can attend a class called “Ethics.” You must attend either your Religious Education class or Ethics.

bleistift2,

The question boils down to: Is being a girl/woman today, where you live, so bad that it takes more than 99 million dollars to make up for it?

bleistift2,

I’ve never in my life failed a captcha. Maybe you’re just bad at identifying bikes?

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